Astrophysics Group Meetings and Seminars

Every Thursday afternoon, the Astrophysics Group meets in the Library for seminars.`

The time allocated to speakers for their presentations is 45 minutes (plus 15 minutes for questions). Seminars begin at 2.30pm unless stated otherwise.
The seminar is preceded by lunch at a local pub and is followed by coffee and biscuits

Roberto Mignani and Ziri Younsi are the seminar organisers. If you have any comments or if you would like to visit MSSL and give us a seminar, please drop Roberto or Ziri a line.

Seminars Next Semester: January – June 2012 click here.

Past seminars:

January – June 2011

September – December 2010

Calendar July - December 2011
Date	Title	Speaker
6th July	X-ray timing of neutron stars: recent progress and future opportunities	Deepto Chakrabarty MIT
7th July	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
14th July	Massive Star Formation in the Galaxy.	Melvin Hoare University of Leeds
21st July	UKIDSS, the highest-redshift z>6 quasars, and cosmic reionisation	Prof. Stephen Warren Imperial College London
28th July	Making physical sense of the properties of black hole binaries	Prof. Chris Done University of Durham
4th August
8th August	JASMINE projects:Series of Infrared Space Astrometry Missions	Prof. Naoteru Gouda National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
11th August
18th August	SUMMER BREAK
25th August
1st September	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
8th September	The wonderful world of THINGS (The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey)	Prof. Elias Brinks University of Hertfordshire
15th September	The abundance of Lithium in Halo stars: a challenge for Big Bang nucleosynthesis or stellar evolution?	Prof. Maurizio Salaris Liverpool John Moores University
22nd September	Beyond planet discovery - follow-up observations of planets and stars from the WASP survey	Pierre Maxted Keele University
29th September	Exploring the origin and evolution of structure in the universe	Hiranya Pieiris UCL
6th October	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
13th October	The formation of S0 galaxies	Allfonso Aragon-Salamanca University of Nottingham
20th October	AGN Feedback in groups of galaxies	Somak Raychaudhury University of Birmingham
27th October	Dust nova winds	Nye Evans Keele University
3rd November	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
10th November	Tidal Phenomena around Massive Objects	Shiho Kobayashi Liverpool John Moores University
18th November	Detecting nanohertz gravitational waves with Pulsars	Ben Stappers University of Manchester
24th November	Neutron star masses in X-ray binaries	Andrew Norton The Open University
1st December	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
6th December	Euclid - ESA's mission to understand the accelerating Universe	Prof. Mark Cropper MSSL
8th December	The Central PNe Populations of Galaxies - Clues to a Better Understanding of Late Stellar Evolution	Marc Sarzi University of Hertfordshire
15th December	Core collapse supernovae as a tracer of high-mass star formation	Phil A. James Liverpool John Moores University
22nd December	CHRISTMAS BREAK
29th December

Last updated June 2011 — Roberto Mignani